From Yahoo News:
A hunter may soon face criminal charges after killing a gray wolf earlier this year in Calhoun County.
The animal was reportedly killed in January during a guided coyote hunt in the county, hundreds of miles from Michigan’s known wolf population in the Upper Peninsula. The hunter believed the animal to be a large coyote, but genetic testing by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources later revealed the animal to be a gray wolf.
From Herald Review:
The International Wolf Center is proud to announce the upcoming premiere of its latest exhibit, “Starvation, Adaptation and Survival—Insights from the Voyageurs Wolf Project,” which will open to the public on Friday, May 24. This engaging and informative exhibit will run through October 20 and offer visitors a unique look into the lives of wolves in Northern Minnesota.
Since its inception in 2015, the Voyageurs Wolf Project, led by researchers from the University of Minnesota, has been dedicated to studying the summer ecology of wolves in the vicinity of Voyageurs National Park. This exhibit showcases the project’s significant findings and insights gained from nearly a decade of meticulous research.
From Politico:
Ever since her beloved pony Dolly was killed by wolf GW950m in Germany’s Lower Saxony in September 2022, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has focused on downgrading the protection status of the large carnivore.
But the strength of her relentless personal crusade — which has translated into political lobbying at the highest level — is raising eyebrows among EU diplomats in Brussels. They describe her focus on the Big Bad Wolf as “strange,” “bizarre,” “puzzling,” and definitely “pushy.”
From Buckrail:
JACKSON, Wyo. — On Friday, May 31 at the Center for the Arts, the event, “Heating Up: Grizzly, Wolf Management and Climate Change,” tapped Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) experts to discuss how projected changes to temperature, precipitation and water will continue to impact apex predators, specifically grizzly bears and wolves, in the area.
Joe O’Connor, Managing Editor of Mountain Journal, moderated the well attended event with wolf biologist Doug Smith, grizzly biologist Chris Servheen and paleoclimatologist Cathy Whitlock.
From Arizona Daily Sun:
A record 27 Mexican wolf pups were fostered into wild dens this spring, according to state and federal wildlife managers.
Officials said the wolf pups’ introduction helps provide genetic diversity within the population of Mexican wolves, as the species recovers from near-extinction.
The newborn Mexican wolf pups came from six genetically diverse litters kept in five institutions involved in the recovery effort from across the United States. The pups were then placed into eight wild dens in Arizona and New Mexico over a month starting mid-April.
From NPR:
Wyoming is home to hundreds of wolves, most live in or near Yellowstone National Park. They’re protected and a big tourist draw.
But elsewhere in the state wolves are still often reviled as predators and a threat to the livestock industry. So killing wolves in most of Wyoming is legal year-round without a license.
From Aurora:
It is an endangered species that has lived in the Ethiopian highlands for more than 1,5 million years.
A work directed by Martínez-Navarro, a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleontology and Social Evolution (IPHES) and published in the journal “Communications Biology”, has shown that the fossil, found at the Melka Wakena site (Ethiopia) is more than 1,5 million years ago and the presence of this endemic species of canid goes back in time.
From Fronteras:
A record number of Mexican gray wolves have been fostered into wild dens. The effort is part of a program to build up the wild population of the endangered species.
The Fish and Wildlife Service says it fostered 27 wolf pups into wild dens this spring in Arizona and New Mexico. It’s a record year for a program that is almost a decade in the making and aims to improve the genetic diversity of wild Mexican wolves, by introducing newborn pups from captive litters.
From World Animal News:
An anonymous donor has pledged a $2 million match to fund wildlife crossings across a North Carolina highway that’s especially deadly to critically endangered red wolves.
From Outdoor News:
Making scientific concepts and findings accessible to a general audience has long been a challenge for researchers. Most scientific journals have little readership outside academia, and the articles that appear in them are rarely written to be accessible to anyone outside a particular field of study.
The researchers involved with the Voyageurs Wolf Project in Minnesota have done far more than most in recent years to build broad public awareness of some of their novel findings about wolf behavior in and around Voyageurs National Park. And now they’re collaborating with the International Wolf Center and a graphic designer to present a new exhibit that provides a unique perspective on their ongoing studies.
The International Wolf Center uses science-based education to teach and inspire the world about wolves, their ecology, and the wolf-human relationship.